MUMBAI: MIPFormats has announced the names of the MipFormats International Pitch competition finalists who will be invited to Cannes to pitch their projects during the fourth edition of MIPFormats, running on 6-7 April, ahead of the television trade event MipTV which takes place from 8-11 April in Cannes, France.

The MIPFormats Pitch is the global pitching event for companies with innovative concepts for new, non-scripted entertainment formats. Warner Bros. International Television Production, the exclusive sponsor of the competition, oversaw the pre-selection and will spend up to ?25,000 to develop the winning project of the MIPFormats Pitch.

The five finalists are:
Big Again
Presented by Hatch Entertainment, Australia Owner/Executive Producer Greg Logan.

Master Guesser
Presented by Juergen Erdmann, Chief Editor/Head of Development, and Thomas Goseberg, Producer Development, Norddeich TV Produktion, Germany

Nightmare Situation
Presented by Daniel Nembhard, Format Development and Sales Executive, TVF International, UK

Pass The Bomb
Presented by Kevin Hamon, Producer, Fat Program, France

The Bad Girls And Boys School For Old People
Presented by Klaus Vieli, Owner and Program Developer, TV Formats, Switzerland

The finalists will pitch their project on 7 April in front of an international jury of formats experts:
Wall to Wall Media (A Shed Media company) head of entertainment development Poppy Delbridge
Gurin Company president, CEO Phil Gurin
TV 2 Danmark chief of programming Sune Roland Jensen
BlazHoffski Productions creative producer Erik van der Hoff
SBS Broadcasting director TV Remko van Westerloo